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Two drivers hospitalized after Colo. 66 crash

Longmont Times-Call

Posted:
09/07/2013 09:34:22 AM MDT

Updated:
09/09/2013 11:29:01 PM MDT

LONGMONT -- Two drivers were hospitalized with serious injuries this morning after a traffic crash involving three vehicles on Colorado Highway 66 near North 87th Street north of Longmont, according to Colorado State Patrol trooper Nate Reid.

Reid said a helicopter transported the 17-year-old driver of one of the vehicles, a Honda Accord. to Denver Health Medical Center.

The 45-year-old man driving one of the other vehicles, an Oldsmobile Bravada, was taken by ambulance to Longmont United Hospital. Two minor children who were passengers in that vehicle were treated at Longmont United and released, Reid said.

The driver of the third vehicle, a Ford Expedition, reportedly was not injured in the accident, Reid said.

Reid said state troopers were dispatched at about 7:17 a.m. Saturday. Initial reports from the scene, he said, were that the Honda Accord was eastbound on Colo. 66 when it traveled into the westbound traffic lane and clipped the Ford Expedition.

The Honda Accord then continued traveling east and came into a head-on collision with the Oldsmobile Bravada, Reid said.

Full identities of the drivers and passengers were not immediately available, and the accident was still under investigation as of mid-morning on Saturday.

A stretch of Colo. 66 between North 75th and North 87th streets was closed to traffic for a time in order to provide a landing area for the air ambulance and remained closed until about 11:30 a.m.

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Damages were significant to the two vehicles whose drivers were taken to hospitals, Reid said.

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